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AI sector minted 50 new billionaires in 2025; Crunchbase: investors poured $200B into AI startups in 2025, or about 50% of global funding, up from 34% in 2024 (Alicia Park/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/2025/12/25/ai-minted…

Wind farm curtailment: https://www.theferret.scot/why-are-scottish-wind-farms-paid-billions-to-switch-off/

I mentioned previously that my son-in-law's sister and her husband are working on the new Cadillac #F1 team that will compete for the first time in 2026. The couple are both engineers who met over a decade ago while working for a racing team in Europe. That experience was why they were recruited and became one of a handful of rare Canadians working on the project team.
I'm not really a #Formula1 race fan but I am following this team because of the connection. They were recently at the auto show in Toronto where the race car was displayed. They shared a photo of them pointing to their names on the chassis, along with the names of the entire team. Track testing is now underway and it will be interesting to see how they stack up against the legendary manufacturers in this sport.
https://youtu.be/d7BDA7JGamk

Today was one of the rare occasions when I bought gas (petrol) for my plugin hybrid car. I went to the local Shell station to use its car wash as a great deal of salt is being put on the road recently and I wanted to protect the car, if I could.
When I got home I checked out the Shell webpage and found this item

LNG Canada | Shell Canada
LNG Canada, the largest private-sector energy investment in Canada’s history and the country’s first liquefied natural gas export facility, is located in Kitimat, British Columbia, in the traditional territory of the Haisla Nation.

Dans son étude diffusée jeudi, Médiamétrie établit d’ailleurs que Google a été le principal pourvoyeur d’audience pour ces faux sites d’actualité (77 % du trafic), suivi par Meta (10 %). De quoi confirmer les critiques émanant du secteur de la presse en ligne sur le poids de Google dans le succès de telles fermes Š contenus générés par IA, et l’absence de modération adéquate de la part de l’entreprise.

Les faux sites d’information générés par IA récoltent déjà une audience significative, selon une étude Médiamétrie
L’institut de recherche s’est associé au média spécialisé Next, qui documente l’essor et le trafic de ces fermes à contenus générés par l’intelligence artificielle générative.

Short-range kamikaze drones are one of the fastest moving facets of the defense sector today —
The Marine Corps "Organic Precision Fires-Light" (OPF-L) program, is designed to provide dismounted Marine infantry rifle squads with a man-packable, easy-to-operate precision strike drone to engage adversaries beyond line of sight.
A recent announcement of a $23.9-million contract to provide the U.S. Marine Corps with more than 600 "Bolt-M" drones is the next phas…

Inside Anduril’s Bolt-M Kamikaze Drone Program
We go in-depth with Anduril on their machine learning-infused loitering munition that the USMC just ordered, including how they intend to produce it at scale.

2026 means we're in the "risk-assessment" stage of a transition to post-quantum algorithms in the financial sector.

G7 Cyber Expert Group Statement on Advancing a Coordinated Roadmap for the Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography in the Financial Sector: January 2026

"There is no serious question that if #Trump so ordered it, Microsoft could deliberately shut down all services to the Scottish Government and our public sector and the Government must now react as if this is just as much a risk to our democracy as if it was discovered that Putin could send the same order to the same effect" -- @…

"Satellites help tackle landfill methane leaks"
#Methane #Satellites #Environment

Satellites help tackle landfill methane leaks
Satellites are emerging as a powerful new tool in the fight to curb emissions of methane. While methane is much shorter-lived in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, it is vastly more potent at trapping heat, which makes rapid cuts essential for slowing warming in the short term. The same satellite technology that has transformed methane monitoring in the oil and gas sector is now being turned toward another major source—landfill sites.

US investors are boosting Chinese AI-related tech stocks and adding cash to ETFs tracking China's tech sector, as US lawmakers push for tighter capital curbs (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/u-s-i…